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Sorry, but this is a bad, dumb comment. Your point is valid generally, but not here. What is the COST of wearing a helmet? $60 purchase and 5 seconds every tim
by alanbernstein 4y ago
Sorry, but this is a bad, dumb comment. Your point is valid generally, but not here.
What is the COST of wearing a helmet? $60 purchase and 5 seconds every time you ride. Essentially nothing.
Compare to, e.g. TSA, which has a cost of billions of dollars and millions of person-hours. Unlike helmets, which are known to actually prevent some injuries, TSA is also effectively useless at its intended goal.
- edmcnulty101 4y agoIt's hypocritical of you to not be wearing full body chain mail to protect yourself from bullets and stabbings. There's more gunshots and stabbings than people injuring their head on bicycles. You can buy a suit of chainmail for the same price as a modern bicycle. Its minimal cost.
- anonymousab 4y ago> It's hypocritical of you to not be wearing full body chain mail to protect yourself from bullets and stabbings. In most countries, the risk of shootings or stabbings are orders of magnitude lower than having a fall or accident on a bike on the road with other types of vehicles. In certain parts of the US, though? Yeah, wearing body armor would probably be a good idea. I think people just generally try to avoid going to those places as their strategy of risk avoidance, which negates the need for any body armor.
- edmcnulty101 4y agoI bet if you looked up just about any region in the world shootings and stabbings have been way more frequently than bicycle head injuries. to be absolutely safe you should wear both full body chainmail and a bicycle helmet.
- ginko 4y ago>What is the COST of wearing a helmet? $60 purchase and 5 seconds every time you ride. Essentially nothing. For me the main cost is having to carry around a bulky helmet when I'm off the bike and ugly indentations on my hair and forehead.